Leonardo

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Summary: Good Bio of an Extraordinary Man
Review: Leonardo da Vinci is certainly the name that personifies the term Renaissance Man. He lived in a time when it was possible for one man to know all that there was to know. In medicine, mechanics, and art he not only knew everything, but contributed to the general base of knowledge in each area. His written output was huge. Something over 20,000 pages of drawings and notes show his genius.

Perhaps the most famous of his work are the Mona Lisa, the painting of the Last Supper and his sketches of inventions far in the future like flying machines. His drawings of the human body as a machine, showing the bone structure, the nerve system, cardio-vascular system remain not only beautiful drawings but accurate representations of reality.

In this book, Martin Kemp, the world's leading authority on Leonardo cuts through the dense viel of legend, challenges the myths, and offers an unparalleled portrait of this extraordinary man.